Let me get this straight: it wasn't about the price of eggs after all?

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Voters may have been willing to risk it all for slightly lower egg prices, but regardless of what they thought they were doing, they’re getting a chaos machine — and that sort of thing gets exhausting pretty quickly."

~ Aaron Rupar

#Trump #economy #eggs #PriceofEggs #PoliticsofChaos
/3

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-gaetz-hegseth-chaos-factory

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"As The New Republic editor Michael Tomasky wrote, 'It wasn’t the economy. It wasn’t inflation, or anything else. It was how people perceive those things, which points to one overpowering answer.' The right-wing media now controls the agenda.

For those of us who grew up on a steady diet of truth-telling, it’s gut-wrenching to see this mega misinformation machine grow into a multi-headed monster."

~ Dan Rather

#Trump #economy #eggs #PriceofEggs #media
/4

https://steady.substack.com/p/a-big-win-for-propaganda

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"It's an information war. And I said this depressingly that Putin and our enemies won the information war for now without firing a bullet. And Steve Bannon 10 years ago said that the enemy is not the Democrats, it's the media. It's a long term plan. Republicans have won for now, just like they've won the judges."

~ Wajahat Ali

#Trump #economy #eggs #PriceofEggs #media #PoliticsofChaos
/5

https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/why-should-americans-remain-optimistic

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

Just today, I talked to someone who lives on the economic edge. Her parents were East German immigrants to the US. She makes a living cleaning houses. She's very bright but has limited education. From her parents, she has inherited quite a bit of antisemitic prejudice, and has attached anti-Black prejudice to that. Her take on the election:

"There's one good thing about it: my cryptocurrency has just skyrocketed."

She waxes poetic about Musk and DOGE.

#Trump #economy #eggs #PriceofEggs
/6

[greycat@kitty.social]

@[email protected] I've been saying it for years but this election made it abundantly clear: narrative is all, facts are irrelevant

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Beachbum You're absolutely right.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@greycat Yes. Well-stated and well-summed up.

[mredgarbass@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy The greater the chaos, the more they can steal.

[katma@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy
I recently got emails from various democrats saying they were going on “listening tours.”

I want to shake them and say, “No listening tour! Go on a shouting tour! Double down on key values. Start a FOX equivalent. Get your messaging aligned! Don’t pause, don’t worry about being nice, and don’t hedge and dodge every time some GOPer lobs an insult at you! Ffs!”

Or if they are going to do all this listening, don’t listen to white people. We are (generally speaking) a mess

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"We can confidently predict that within a month of Trump’s second inauguration, the economic stats won’t have changed significantly, but Republicans and probably idiots in the mainstream media will be kvelling about the bright new economy the Great Man has ushered in. Even if he follows through on those inflation-boosting tariffs."

~ Doktor Zoom

#Trump #economy #eggs #PriceofEggs
/7

https://www.wonkette.com/p/republican-voters-decide-joe-bidens

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

Jonathan V. Last points to a 2002 YouGov report about the gap between Americans' perceptions and reality:

"Here are some of the percentages that Americans (on average) think their fellow citizens are:

Transgender: 21 percent

Muslim: 27 percent

Jewish: 30 percent

Black: 41 percent

Live in New York City: 30 percent

Gay or lesbian: 30 percent"

~ Jonathan V. Last

#Trump #economy #eggs #PriceofEggs #misinformation #disinformation
/8

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/americans-have-one-very-strange-cognitive

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"If you go down the list of characteristics YouGov asked people about, you see a persistent mistake in one direction: Americans vastly overestimate the numbers of people in minority groups. And by 'minority groups' I’m talking not just about racial, ethnic, and sexual minorities. They wildly overestimate all kinds of minorities."

#Trump #economy #eggs #PriceofEggs #misinformation #disinformation
/9

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Katma I'm with you. Totally agree.

[jstatepost@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy
🥥 May Eye pleez say it again, William?
Eye greatly appreciate what you are doing on the Fediverse by posting excellent non-corporate links and news comments Mastodon.
We might not see them, if left to our own devices.
Rawk on, sir! 🥥
#Media #News #Fediverse #Mastodon #TuckersBalls

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@MrEdgarBass Well-stated. Succinct and right to the point.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@jstatepost I'm very grateful to you. I'll keep trying!

[piousunyn@universeodon.com]

@wdlindsy My view is, the self righteous GOP attack on any and all people of difference, includes women, who are not a minority?

#Trump #economy #eggs #PriceofEggs #misinformation #disinformation #peopleof difference

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"In the wake of Donald Trump’s 2024 victory, huge numbers of Republicans who previously believed that the economy was 'getting worse' and that U.S. elections are not 'free and fair' no longer believe those things, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll."

~ Andrew Romano

#Trump #economy #eggs #PriceofEggs #misinformation #disinformation
/10

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/poll-republicans-reverse-views-on-economy-and-election-fraud-after-trump-s-win-much-smaller-shifts-among-democrats/ar-AA1uA1r7

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"The survey of 1,612 U.S. adults, which was conducted from Nov. 14 to Nov. 18, found that fewer than half of Republicans (48%) now say the economy is getting worse. But immediately before the Nov. 5 election, nearly three-quarters of Republicans (74%) said the economy was going downhill.

That’s a sudden 26-point shift."

Magic! The price of eggs magically no longer matters.

#Trump #economy #eggs #PriceofEggs #misinformation #disinformation
/11

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"It is also a mistake to talk about 'what went wrong' by ignoring the fact that Trump's campaign platform had three culture-war pillars: racism, sexism, and white supremacy.

Those policy pillars are manifesting themselves in Trump's nominees for senior positions in his administration. To publish an analysis of 'why Democrats lost' while ignoring Trump's campaign themes is a recipe for delusion."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #economy #PriceofEggs #disinformation
/12

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/trumps-project-2025-nominees